True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
LEO TOLSTOYEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Love those you hate you.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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